Executive Communications Manager
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Our Communications team includes External Communications, Internal Communications, and other strategic communications functions. This team’s ethos is to support OpenAI's mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI.
About the Role
Executive communications help OpenAI’s leaders show up clearly, credibly, and consistently in moments that matter. We’re looking for an Executive Communications Manager to support senior executives, working closely with the Executive Communications Lead to translate complex technical, product, and policy topics into clear, human, trusted communications for global audiences.
This is an individual contributor role with significant ownership and visibility. It is deeply hands-on and execution-oriented, with no direct people management. A meaningful part of the job is owning executive social media day to day—drafting, publishing, monitoring, and iterating in real time—alongside broader executive communications work across talking points, briefings, and public moments.
This role requires exceptional judgment and discretion. You will often operate with incomplete information, tight timelines, and high visibility. You will work closely with leadership and cross-functional partners across product, research, policy, legal, marketing, and communications, and should be comfortable building trust with senior stakeholders in fast-moving environments.
In this role, you will:
- Partner with senior executives to develop and execute external and internal communications strategies
- Shape executive narratives across priority themes and drive multi-channel execution across media, podcasts, social, events, and owned channels
- Draft high-impact materials including talking points, social posts, and briefing documents
- Own end-to-end executive soc...